See, this hot water wash being bad for the envinroment thing annoys me a bit. Of course it requires more electricity to wash hot (I've checked my machine and sure enough it is just under double)
Yet they're promoting the heck out of electric cars, add this to the seer amount of gadgets we have that require electricity along with blazing lit shops and offices with lights and computers et al, at all times of day and night. Then with supposedly "sustainable" renewable electricity - when does washing hot become the enemy.
Fair enough you can "clean" laundry at 30, but look at the amount of chemicals that manufacturers push to achieve this (so of course they're only too glad to say save the envinroment), can you remember your mother or Grandmother needing - plastic! Laundry capsules or thick gels, a heap of Vanish, stain remover products, whitener products smelly laundry beads, Dettol laundry cleanser and THEN washing machine cleaner products for your "maintenance wash" not to forget softener and whatever else you can think of.
No they sure did not, a box of Ariel automatic, a boil wash and away they went. So who does the wash at 30 really benefit?
Not to add, how many clothes and washing machines are being thrown out, perhaps prematurely, due to either clothes that are stained or machines that are gunked up from oh so environmentally friendly cool washes or chemical corrosion - worse for the environment.
We had washers and clothes at home +20 years old, only now do you get 3 or so years out of them.
30 degrees is 7 degrees BELOW body temperature- how is this going to clean your clothes??? You know what'd happen if you washed your dishes in water this cool.
I could be being a bit dim, but it's often touted that doing 1 or 2 hot washes a month is single handedly going to destroy the planet and I don't get it when you look at everything else considered.